imagine, u r inside, an empty train compartment, while the train is traveling at a very high velocity in vaccum. now u jump up inside the compartment. wen u get down would u be exactly at the same place u jumped from or not. if so why?
2007-09-09 06:13:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Yes, because you have the same momentum as the train. So you're moving the same speed, and so is the air in the train, so you will come down in the same place in the train you started at.
2007-09-09 06:21:32 · answer #1 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. If the train system were perfect, having a constant velocity, and you did not look out the window, you would not be able to tell the train were moving. F=mA says you would only experience forces, if there are any changes in velocity. Since your velocity relative to the center of the earth is the same, everything is the same as if the train weren't moving at all.
2007-09-09 06:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by Robert T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the train compartment is empty, how can you be inside? Then it's not empty....
Anyway -- Just a guess: You'll hit the ceiling and bounce back down. You'll remain in relatively the same place because you're moving at the same speed as the train compartment you're in.
2007-09-09 06:23:09 · answer #3 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same spot (uless you dies from having no air!)
If you're in a train, travelling at any speed, you are travelling at he same speed. There's no air for wind resistance.
So you jump, you are still moving at the same speed the train is.
You land, same spot.
The only time you would move any, is if the train slowed down or sped up, as you would then be travelling at a different rate than that of the train..
2007-09-09 06:23:43 · answer #4 · answered by J4xxs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could be at the same place , or not. Depends where you actually step back on the train.
2007-09-09 06:23:06 · answer #5 · answered by joulsey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋